“Today, I can report that, as promised, the rest of our troops in Iraq will come home,” the President said. “We’re leaving behind a sovereign, stable, and self-reliant Iraq.” The words “sovereign, stable, and self-reliant” had never been used by the Pentagon or the State Department, and I had never seen them in any intelligence report. After all we went through and all the casualties we suffered, I thought, surely we were not just giving up.
